Evaluation of Procedural Justice in International Adaptation Funding

Abstract

This Chapter employs the fairness criteria put forward with the justice framework to evaluate the current international regime for funding adaptation under the UNFCCC. It adopts three different perspectives to assess procedural justice in international adaptation funding in light of the emergence and meaning of the fairness criteria. First, it uses the qualitative content analysis approach to evaluate the relevant documents of the UNFCCC architecture. These documents belong to seven categories grouped into two families: that of Principal Documents and that of Non-Principal Documents. The Chapter then evaluates the emergence of fairness criteria within the governance structures, procedures and practices of the institutions of the climate change regime governing adaptation funding. The third perspective involves observation of significant selected formal negotiations and is centred on meetings on the Adaptation Fund – the most controversial, yet promising, financial instrument – and points out the effective level of procedural fairness involved.